The American Midwest is an area that stretches over huge distances. Yet it seems that the Norwegian language in this whole area has some similarities, particularly at the lexical level. Comparisons of three types of vocabulary across the whole area, as well as across time, building on accounts in the previous literature from Haugen (1953) onwards, are carried out. The results of these comparisons convince the authors that it is justified to refer to this language as one lexically defined dialect, which we call lexicolect .

中文翻译：

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美国中西部的挪威语：通用方言？

美国中西部是一个绵延很远的地区。然而，挪威语在这整个领域似乎有一些相似之处，尤其是在词汇层面。在 Haugen (1953) 以后的先前文献中，对整个地区以及跨时间的三种词汇进行了比较。这些比较的结果使作者相信，将这种语言称为一种词汇定义的方言是合理的，我们将其称为 lexicolect。